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NELSON WADE, designer of men and woman’s fine custom apparel, is now offering a full line of fabrics from SCABAL. For more than 70 years, SCABAL has supplied exquisite fabrics to prestigious tailors.

For all the men and women out there who insist upon a “Rolls Royce” suit, SCABAL has designed and created the first cloth which incorporates diamond fragments called “Diamond Chip”.

Also in a very elegant way, SCABAL is implementing the general trend for increased personalization. Thanks to new technology, it is now possible to weave complete sentences, personal motto, wedding date, a message of love, the name of a company or club, or even a poem and this in an uninterrupted line or with spacing.

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If you are confused by the difference between a “bespoke” and “made-to-measure” suit, you aren’t alone.

Advertising Standards Authority thinks that the words have become so interchangeable in the public’s mind that the tailors of Savile Row in London no longer have a right to the exclusive grip over the word that they’ve had for centuries.

On Wednesday, it rejected a complaint against Sartoriani, a tailor on Bond Street, for using the word “bespoke” in an advertising campaign.

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Qiviuk; Ericka Burchett/Wall Street Journal; Startraks Photo

Brioni ‘Vanquish II’ suit, $43,000 (far right); earrings, from Van Cleef & Arpels, in 18-karat white gold with diamonds and pink sapphires, $52,500; at the Qiviuk store in New York, suits cost $20,000.

As the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression swept the globe in October, the high-end Italian clothier Brioni introduced the most expensive line of men’s suits in its history. Made to measure from rare fibers such as vicuna, pashmina and Qiviuk, the suits have price tags as high as $43,000.

“The timing was not fortunate for us,” says Andrea Perrone, Brioni’s co-chief executive.

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